| Web design and Web hosting | | | | assurance guidelines. Formalities regarding web hosting |
| Present day's software programming techniques have | | | | also require to be conceptualized now. |
| reached to a new height to cope with the | | | | (c) Phase III: Design and Testing. Now the actual |
| ever-changing scenario of web design and web | | | | designing should start. Testing also needs to be |
| hosting principles. With the growing security concerns | | | | accomplished along every stages of web |
| and increasing need of quality assurance, the task of | | | | development in order to provide a consistent degree |
| web development has become increasingly challenging | | | | of quality assurance. There is a wide spread belief |
| for today's IT community. To ensure highest data | | | | within the IT community that testing can be tasked at a |
| security, new tools like PHP programming, .Net | | | | later stage; but that is not fruitful and goes against the |
| programming, etc. have evolved over the years. With | | | | ethos of software programming technology. |
| rapid development in the e-commerce activity, web | | | | (d) Phase IV: Production and Implementation. In this |
| hosting has become the new way of existence for | | | | phase, content and layout are merged to give a final |
| the business community. Mere knowledge on software | | | | shape to the web development. Uses of PHP |
| programming is no more enough for achieving success | | | | programming and .Net programming techniques are |
| in web development. In a single word, web design and | | | | very important in this phase as they are the |
| web hosting calls for all the efficiency of software | | | | state-of-the-art tools for such purposes. |
| programming coupled with administrative skills, business | | | | (e) Phase V: Maintenance and Updating. Once the |
| awareness and a quality expertise on the multimedia | | | | web hosting is completed, maintenance and updating |
| art. | | | | at regular intervals are mandatory to keep the website |
| Phases of Web design | | | | purpose-worthy. |
| Basic understanding of HTML and Microsoft's | | | | Issues of Quality Assurance |
| FrontPage, in addition to expertise on .Net programming | | | | Quality of design and quality of conformance are the |
| and PHP programming, are essential in order to | | | | two types of quality issues that we generally come |
| establish greater quality assurance in web | | | | across with the web development. Quality of design |
| development and web hosting fields. Following are the | | | | calls for a sound knowledge on the software |
| different phases of web design, if followed | | | | programming techniques, especially knowledge of PHP |
| meticulously success can be achieved without much | | | | programming and .Net programming are very much |
| difficulty. | | | | essential in order to ensure quality assured web |
| (a) Phase I: Defining Scope. Every web development | | | | development. Quality of conformance is the degree to |
| project should have a defined scope outlining the need | | | | which the design specifications are met during the |
| of gathering related information, risk and budget | | | | development and implementation stages. Web site |
| analysis, defining constraints, etc. The scope should be | | | | quality assurance plan should include the ways and |
| defined keeping in mind the business needs and | | | | means of design specification evaluation, procedures |
| existing technology of software programming. | | | | of audits and reviews, prescribed ways of monitoring |
| (b) Phase II: Project Planning. Information gathered is | | | | defined standards, mechanism for error reporting and |
| now required to be re-evaluated with complete quality | | | | error tracking, etc. |